Forms of Circulation#1

Digital transfer from 16mm colour film, 13mins 12secs

Test tubes and bottles, cabinets and pressure gauges, microscopes, freezers and 3D printers, pipettes and pipes, and a colony of dancing seals. Developed from workshops with lab researchers and shot on location at the advanced biosciences facility National Horizons Centre and Teesmouth National Nature Reserve, the film explores the labour exchange from human hand to machine processes to the seals of Seal Sands.

Supporting the work of Teesmouth Seal Rescue and Coastal Conservation Centre.

Forms of Circulation is a collaborative project by Paul Stewart and Sarah Perks. Through their artistic-curatorial practice, often workshop and film-based, bringing together their explorations from empathy to engagement, critical pedagogies to expanded curation, knowledge exchange to karaoke.DoP for artists’ moving image project with Prof. Sarah Perks and Dr Paul Stewart.

Christo Wallers took the role of DoP, shooting colour 16mm on the Arri SR.